Christopher Hitchens wrote this week about the slaughter of the pigs in Egypt for Slate. He observed the religious component to the hysteria: Back in May, just as Egypt’s anti-porcine hysteria was gathering pace, there was a proposal from Sheik Ahmad Ali Othman, a senior advisory figure at the Ministry of Religious Endowments, that all […]

The World Health Organization is taking the US lead and has decided that the swine flu will no longer be the swine flu. Out of deference to our porcine (kosher-challenged) companions, we shall now only refer to the disease as H1N1-A. Apparently the old name was scaring Congress away from pork-barrel spending. Print this entry